Alvared's launch

The stone ship of Alvared is Åsarp , a district of Falköping in the province Västergötland in Sweden , on a moraine , near an old ford across the river Ätran , where a bridge is since 1,642th Alvared's east-west orientated ship setting ( Swedish skeppssättning ) probably dates from the Iron Age (500 BC - 650 AD). It measures about ten by five meters. Ship settlements of this kind can be found in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, in Germany only in the old camp near Menzlin.

Swedish ship-setting is a stone setting up to 67 m long in the shape of a ship. They mostly mark graves, but they also have ritual significance. Many date back to the younger Iron Age, the Vendel (650–800 AD) and the Viking Age (800–1050 AD).

According to local tradition, the fortified city - Älver - was located here. Älfer's southern and northern city gates are still there at Frugården and Raka backe. Älvers heyday is said to have been in the Vendel period , but it was burned down. The village of Alvared is rich in graves from the Iron Age, which chronologically corresponds to the legend of the city of Älver.

Web links

• Alvared launching a ship - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
• Description Swedish and picture

Coordinates: 58 ° 1 ′ 40.8 ″  N , 13 ° 32 ′ 56.8 ″  E